TS4088 Obviously if my computer is out of warranty than this isn't really going to help me is it?

Obviously this isn't really going to help me if my computer is out of warranty correct?

Well it probably won't come as a surprise for me to tell you that I can't afford to pay Apple to replace my logic board. I bought mine in September of 2010, so I'm almost 4 months out of warranty. Say I brought this to Apple after a year from purchase, I would had to have paid for the repair. I don't know when this article was posted, but for an intermittent hardware problem, I feel rather cheated for not being notified by Apple of a potential manufacturer's defect, like you would expect from say an auto manufacturer.

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